For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.

Think about the circumstances of your call, brothers and sisters. Not many were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were born to a privileged position.

so that your faith would not be based on human wisdom but on the power of God.

And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

For whenever someone says, "I am with Paul," or "I am with Apollos," are you not merely human?

So for me, it is a minor matter that I am judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself.

If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.